so then why did she send the memo?? sounds strange to me. nm
Posted By: anon on 2009-09-02
In Reply to: Lee Perfect VBC memo - Kat
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I think it sounds strange but it is a way to
No telling how far I will go. I know that Florence has been pushing this and she wants me to work with her which I am honored to do. I really hate to say this here but it does look like I am going to be replacing one QA and there are two more. I feel a little uncomfortable but at least I will have a long happy career in QA at OSI. I am very greatful for that.
Sounds strange....
Sounds like one of those crazy people who want to try and attack your computer with a virus....
This sounds very strange to me....sm
I work for Webmedx and have never heard of J&J. The whole thing sounds fishy to me. Any other Webbers out there that can shed a little more light on this?
Thank you for the info. Sounds strange!! nm
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A company sounds strange because you didn't pass their test? SM
I LIKE working for a company that puts quality over everything else.
it sounds like they use FTP to send files though
I did find out that much so I'll throw that one the window!
LOL! Is IS a very strange company run by very strange people. I have had that
very thought before and it made me laugh to see you refer to it as strange, too. Thank goodness it's not just me!
Good luck Candy!
*Strange*; nothign strange about it.
Ditto! Also add that they ignore e-mails you send and send endless IMs!
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LP VBC Memo - sm
I'm not sure why she (LM) bothers to send these out or even to come here and defend herself or her company. You people are dense, denser than old glass doorknobs.
She clearly explains what a VBC is and also states that LP is not using this method of counting. However, she has an opportunity to bid on an account that is requesting VBC and she was also looking for some feedback from any of her ICs who may already be using this method. She explains that there is an 18% difference in counting totals.
She is explaining that this is the new industry wave so to speak and we should all be aware so we can plan accordingly or have a better understanding, kind of like when we went from gross to 65 character method or even switching from WP to Word.
Ya know, LP and LM are not perfect. I've worked there on an off for the last 15 years, but come on she was not dropping a huge bomb on anyone, cutting pay rates, etc. She was actually trying to be helfpul and informative as well as gather some information for future use. I'm sure she garnered useful information - some of her ICs are challenged in reading comprehension.
I think you need to read your memo again.
The very first thing it says is, Offshore editors are paid $8 per hour and it goes on to describe the new pay structure for us US editors/reviewers exactly. So, that tells me that we are getting the same wage as them. I am not sure how you got that all turned around.
Maybe a mistake was made and this memo was not supposed to go out to us US employees describing India wages. BUT, now the cat is out of the bag!! 
Got that memo, did not say anything about account
I know about the e mail asking if people were interested in speech editing, but it did not say what account. If the one says that account is having glitches, and you were interested, I would ask my supervisor if I were you to see the progress. Those of us who were not interested have not heard any further or what accounts are on that speech track. Perhaps some tests or things we don't transcribe are going Speech. I am sure if the account were going totally speech they would have let us know by now. If you talk to your sup and get an answer, please let us know. Tx.
No memo. You'll only know for sure if
you are on the team that gets a new account. One did start in the middle of July but runs as dry as all the rest of their accounts. You'll only notice on the Community Page if you know all the accounts and see something new. They don't care if you have no work. The TAT is to their advantage.
Lee Perfect VBC memo
Does anyone work for LP and get this VBC memo today? If so, can someone please explain to me what it means? I already asked the owner and she said REREAD THE MEMO. I don't know if she wants us to take a pay cut or to add an account.......TIA!!!!!!!!!
Lee Perfect VBC memo
Thanks :(( It was not making sense to me....
Lee Perfect VBC memo
Thanks for the support! Feeling better for it!!!!!!
Lee Perfect VBC memo
The owner wrote to me with this message ..... there is no paycut. No new accounts., If you do not care to know about VBC ok, in the future many transcription services will be using it. Not ours.
Lee Perfect VBC memo
I am the mentally challenged old glass doorknob! lol
No one can feel worse about it than me but I needed some clarification. I wish I could have understood what she wanted to say but I did not...there were others who did not either...I was not bashing her or the company. I love my job there BUT I needed help understanding the memo. Thank you for the info. It was clear as a bell.
You read the memo wrong
The memo read pay for reviewing of offshore work will be paid at..... It does not mean that we are paid the same as those offshore. My pay has not changed since this went into effect. We were all offered the option to transcribe if we did not like the base rate plus incentive. I for one do like it, but if you do not, why do you not transcribe instead of review? It is an option that was offered. Just a suggestion that may work better for you.
I think the accidental memo proves a whole of it goes
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It almost looks like a memo she got and didn't make it into an ad.
I was also wondering about that $7000, is that per month, per pay period, maybe per year? 
Nevermind, I should have read the whole memo about update. Duh... nm
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The solution center's memo of an upgrade to the system SM
in the next couple of weeks (not on company computer right now so don't remember exact date) includes release notes that says the issue of the platform freezing will be corrected. I hope this fixes some of my own problems.
The memo is 7 am to midnight. So for third shift no coverage on pager.
And for the weekend, no paging really unless their system is down, not ours. Actually, that's less stressful because if we are down we just e mail and forget about it. Of course downtime would help that is paid downtime.
This e mail does not bug me. But, I do have to say I have become increasingly depressed over this job lately and I am not usually this way. I have a feeling I am not alone in my depressed feeling, I just wish I knew why I felt this way. Things looked so good 2 weeks ago... I agree with the aarrg above. Double arrgg for me to.
Memo specifically said upgrade would address the platform freezing up.
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No, we got a small Valentine's gift that looks like a paper weight/ memo holder??
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sure sounds swell. Sounds like 2350 ln/day @ 4 cents/ln=$90./day
in order to figure how many line needs to be produced to make $500 per pay period. ie, how many lines an hour needed per 8 hour day --at your rate.
So say $450 a week would be $90 a day.
For example, if making 4 cents a line,need 2,250 lines a day, 281 an HOUR (to listen through and edit) to make this great wage of $90. a day FOR ALL THIS SAME SKILL, TO KEEP UPDATED WITH CHANGING MEDICAL COMMUNITY. nope Better at Jack-in-Box Pass it up.
Strange
That's strange, I received an e-mail from someone from this board about scoping, thought it was you  . And, I replied to that person, who knows who I talked to (and if she received it LOL).
How strange
Can you tell me who contacted you? I just thought it was strange that they sent me a contract without having me test first.
That is strange!
Where do you work? Are you employee, statutory or IC?
Strange
That does seem very strange. I'll have to poke around. I don't really even know of any other MT boards!
That is strange because they were
Maybe they are overstaffed....
What do you mean? Seems like strange
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Something strange is going on!
I just signed on this morning and there was nothing to do. I e-mailed the CEO and it will be interesting. I am almost positive that the account I have been working on has been gone, but why have they not told me? Are they embarrassed? The only e-mail I got this week was that work is very slow and that they hope to be getting back up to speed. I was not told that I was let go, fired, etc. You would think a company would at least tell their MTs if their account was taken away. I've been sitting here for 8 days with absolutely nothing to do. Very strange.......
Something strange going on with this
I was contacted by a woman who seemed knowledgeable about the cardiology accounts - I told her I was very interested. She wanted me to email my bank account information for direct deposit without any documents i needed to sign. I told her I was uncomfortable doing that with just her email address and the phone # I had did not even state her name, just the phone number. I told her I would email her to see if she received my email (not my personal information), she did not email me back. I called the # she gave me and left a message to email me and never heard back from her. She had told me my resume was forwarded from Cardioscribe. I emailed Cardioscribe to ask about this person and have not heard back from them. This is really scary.
It is strange. I know when I run out SM
on a weekend or at night I can call the help desk and get another account to work on. The last time I truly ran out of work was Christmas last year.
That's strange because I
didn't need anything special for the platform. You're talking about apex right? I think it's just online and connected to their server in there office. It doesn't have anything to do with using Word.
It IS strange. sm
If the person supposedly got paid everything they were owed before, how did they manage to be owed another $5000 in a month? If one was supposedly owed $12,000 from this MTSO and they got their money, why would they still work for this MTSO?
Yes, very strange
About a month ago, I sent in my resume and was set up for their testing. I tested for them and got a call. They told me I did well on their acute care test and they just wanted me to test on their clinic test. Did that. Didn't hear anything and I sent two e-mail letters letting them know I completed their testing, which was about 2 weeks ago and haven't heard anything from them since!
Very strange, that's where I'm looking.
Nevertheless, there's no need for dark side to be so mean.
Lots of nasty on the board today, must have been a bad Monday.
Strange
They not only require calendars from us as to what days we will work but also that they be 60 days in advance. You can imagine what this does to any social and/or family life. I did not mind that as long as I could earn a living, but the last four months have been pitiful. What I want to know is where did the work go? Are we just supposed to keep checking every hour for 12-20 hours a day? This isn't working for me at all.
very strange
that you can't use any of your editing tools on the VR reports. The company I work for encouraged expanders, etc. They want you to edit these reports as quick as you can to keep TAT. The more you produce, the more money they make.
I know the pay is less, but you will be able to produce more lines than with straight typing. Maybe not to starting off, but you will after you get use to it.
I don't VR is going anywhere soon. MTSOs will do whatever is needed to get accounts.
Here's my strange experience
I had a recruiter from a company (initials PS) tell me on a second interview that she wasn't going to hire me because I asked too many questions. Same recruiter swore that this company didn't offshore. I ended up getting the job but wish I would have paid attention to the red flags and run the other way.
How strange. I just got through posting
and they called!LOL! They told me they would be calling me back at the end of the week. Wish I could wait that long. Oh well.
That is pretty strange...
that with your years of experience Axo offered you 7 cents!! I have 10 years total MT experience and they offered me 9.5 to start and said after 30 days they would review and possibly bump it up to 10...
That is the thing that really irks me about this transcription business. There really isn't any standard as far as pay goes and it seems you just have to get lucky to get a good line rate....I've had other places offer me anywhere from 6 cents up. No way I am working for 6 cents... 
They have a very strange pay scale and no one
can quite figure it out. Very hard to get lines, unable to make any money. Lots of turnover. They are also currently training women in Trinidad to be MTs so it is only a matter of time before the jobs follow.
Not strange... using keystrokes... sm
I work for a company who computes pay by Keystrokes (not the company Keystrokes, that's different). For example, the average range when I started working there was about 0.0014 - 0.0016 per keystroke. Now, this is easier than it sounds... It's based on a 65-character line, just like most places - counting spaces, etc. If you multiply 0.0014 x 65 - that equals about 9.1 cents a line, which isn't shabby pay. If you do 65,000 keystrokes that day, that's 1000 lines (65,000 keystrokes divided by 65 is 1000) that's $91 dollars a day. If your daily quota is reasonable, you could be making some nice money. Hope this helps.
So you take what you were offered, and, depending on quotas for keystrokes during the pay period
Well, I think you are right and it is strange that no one can figure it out. I am also considering
not working for anymore companies that use it. I think I lose about 75 lph at least. That adds up especially at todays rates or MTs.
That's strange because I was making
I did not have to test, and even though I was not too keen on the VR, I still thought the communication was good. The training was a little much since there were five trainees, and one that was not so bright taking up a lot of time when I could already tell she would never last. Oh well, so much for that. I think they are all the same really, the nationals that is. You are basically just a number. Go with a smaller company if you're looking to be stroked all day, and doted over.
That's strange. A few weeks ago someone
and sold it all off as it was taking a full-time person to maintain equipment. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't believe everything I read on this board.
I just think it is kind of strange that
inquiries? Do they not have other employees? It seems that only two posters pretty much reply, which one is you (Jo), and the other is KSMT.... Just think this is kind of strange. Are you to PR for keystrokes? Hmmmm?
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